Cuba - A Taste of Havana
April 30th, 2008 by
travel
Decaying paint-peeled buildings skirt the mayhem of the city’s once grand avenues and plazas, all the way into Centro Habana. Tiny Russian Ladas scamper past enormous American Fords, Chevy’s and Cadillac’s of the 1950’s. Dueling horns blast as cabbies weave their latest shipment of gringos between rickety bicycles, plodding horses, tottering carts, and steaming food stalls. Amongst it all, the eclectic Havanians, hustle, bustle, linger and loiter through another day of post-Revolution life.
Sweeping around a corner, you’ll see rusty farmers aboard their hobbling donkeys amble past elderly rocking chair gossips, fanning themselves under oppressive midday heat. Sassy young chicas in electric spandex body stockings and micro mini’s strut with mock contempt past the leering gaze of brooding hombres prowling the street corners. School kids laugh, play, flirt, and tease, comically mimicking them all. Spaniard melts into African - a beautiful m
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